Responses for Show #776 - Monday, January 11, 1988

Leah Greenwald game 1.

Contestants

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Robin Hoffmann, a magazine promotion manager originally from Peoria, Illinois

Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sarah Workman, a history teacher from Pomona, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
GIRLS IN SONG
SEE THE USA
ANIMAL GROUPS
WEAPONS
(Alex: And finally, as Johnny Gilbert would say...)
THIS IS JEOPARDY!
    $100 16
direct current

Leah
    $100 4
Barbara Ann

Robin
    $100 1
Richmond, Virginia

Leah
    $100 2
a nest

Sarah
    $100 8
a hatchet

Robin
    $100 12
Chuck Forrest

Robin
    $200 22
gravity

Robin
    $200 5
Donna

Robin
    $200 3
Broadway

Leah
    $200 17
(Sarah: What are packs?)

troops

SarahRobin
    $200 11
a Minuteman

Robin
    $500 13
Don Pardo

Robin
    $300 23
a diamond

Sarah
    $300 6
(Alex: "Isn't [*], isn't [*]..." And I won't do any more because we'll have to pay a royalty.)

Garbo & Dietrich

Triple Stumper
    $300 7
New Orleans

Leah
    $300 21
a band

Leah
    $300 24
(Robin: What is an arrow?)

a bolt

Robin
Triple Stumper
    $300 14
David Letterman

Leah
    $400 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

phosphorus

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
(Robin: Who is Mona Lisa?)

Diane

Robin
Triple Stumper
    $400 9
Six Flags Over Texas

Robin
    $400 18
"Weird Al" Yankovic

Robin
    $500 20
(Alex: Less than a minute to go, Robin.)

you, Jezebel, it was you

Triple Stumper
    $500 10
Thomas Wolfe

Leah
    $500 19
(Robin: What is $200?)
(Sarah: What is $500?)
...
(Alex: All of you, fortunately, are too young to remember that, obviously. The correct response is [*]. That was the big value on the Double Jeopardy!, $50 was the top value on the Jeopardy! board.)

$100

SarahRobin
Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Sarah Leah Robin
$100 $1,100 $1,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sarah Leah Robin
-$300 $1,800 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HORS D'OEUVRES
HISTORY
THE HUSBAND MARRIED
(Alex: We give the wives, you name the husband.)
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
STARTS WITH "W"
CZECH, PLEASE
    $200 4
raw vegetables

Leah
    $200 1
the Mayflower

Sarah
    $200 18
Humphrey Bogart

Leah
    $200 10
The Merry Wives of Windsor

Leah
    $200 24
wring

Leah
    $200 25
(Alex: The capital, yes, less than a minute to go.)

Prague

Leah
    $400 5
rumaki

Leah
    $1,000 2
1940

Sarah
    $400 17
Cary Grant

Robin
    $400 11
Portia

Leah
    $400 21
Wilhelm

Sarah
    $400 26
Ivan Lendl

Triple Stumper
    $600 6
canapé

Sarah
    $600 3
Hull House (in Chicago)

Leah
    $800 16
George C. Scott

Leah
    $600 12
Ophelia

Leah
    $600 22
a wasp

Triple Stumper
    $600 27
the Nobel Prize (for Literature)

Leah
    $800 9
hummus

Leah
    $800 7
Morocco

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
Dick Powell

Leah
    $800 13
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Leah
    $800 23
the Warren Commission

Leah
    $800 28
the Warsaw Pact

Sarah
    $1000 15
(Leah: Uh, what is the meal?)

work

Leah
Triple Stumper
    $1000 8
Jomo Kenyatta

Leah
    $1000 20
Nelson Rockefeller

Sarah
    $1000 14
(Leah: What is [*]?)
(Alex: Why do you say "What is"?)
(Leah: Er, the play, I'm sorry.)
(Alex: All right. [Chuckles] Nice going. You did very well in that category.)
[Applause for Leah's run of the category]

Richard III

Leah
    $1000 29
Walpurgisnacht

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Alex: The new James Bond film, [*]. Sarah? No--[Turns to look at the board]--ohp, we're out of--we're out of material? Oh, how could that happen? Boy, you guys were great.)

The Living Daylights

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sarah Leah Robin
$3,700 $10,400 $1,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUTH AMERICA
RobinWhat are Bolivia and Argentina
$1,595
SarahWhat are Bolivia and Surinam
$2,000
LeahWhat are Bolivia & Colombia
$600
Colombia & Bolivia

Final scores:

Sarah Leah Robin
$1,700 $11,000 $5
2nd place: a trip to Florida on Eastern Airlines + stay at Pickett Suite Hotel in Tampa + passes to Busch Gardens or Cypress Gardens New champion: $11,000 3rd place: a Yamaha PSR-90 portable keyboard with MIDI & stereo sound

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sarah Leah Robin
$3,100 $10,200 $1,300
8 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 24 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $14,600

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Game tape date: 1987-09-28
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